Millions of subjects from all over the United Kingdom are ready to line up at Westminster Hall in London, to pay homage to the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II , who died on 8 September at the age of 96, of which 70 spent on the throne.
Once the succession process for the passage of the English scepter to Charles III has been completed, from today, the bier with the body of the sovereign will remain on display for four days to allow the British people to pay her the last farewell , before the solemn funeral and burial in Windsor, scheduled for Monday 19 September .
The coffin of Elizabeth II, which left Buckingham Palace in a solemn procession for the last farewell to London , reached Westminster Hall carried on the shoulders of a Royal Guard picket. Thousands and thousands of people have already been waiting for hours in the queue: the first have entered Westminster, many of them in tears.
500 foreign leaders, heads of state and dignitaries have been invited to the state funeral, who will come to England from all corners of the planet.
There will be, among others, the American president Joe Biden and the Italian president Sergio Mattarella .
From what is learned, however, the participation of any representation of Vladimir Putin's Russia is excluded , put on the index at the behest of the Tory government of the new premier Liz Truss due to the war in Ukraine. There is also no invitation for the representatives of Belarus , an ally of Moscow, and for those of putschist Burma . According to some rumors , Afghanistan, Syria and Venezuela will also be excluded from the funeral.
(Unioneonline / lf-L)
Il feretro della regina Elisabetta II è a Westminster